This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.